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Carthag Tuek posted:e: do people only live on the east coast in scotland? i always thought it was like norway with west-facing fjords & such. 
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Saladman posted:That does a great job of highlighting how bizarre the population density is in Spain vs. the rest of the EU. Also apparently Bosniaks don't play football. I meant the regions like southern Sicily, Crete, parts of Portugal or the entirety of Finland that didn't make it on the map. But yeah, the different degrees of detail in OSM also is gonna play a role
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      From here. I guess I'm surprised by how similar France and Spain look, and the density all along the N Africa coast in the last pic.
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May 22, 2021 17:43
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Guavanaut posted:Everyone lives in the central belt or around Aberdeen. I have heard rumors of people living in Inverness, but the Highlands and Islands has a very low population density. Aha! takker!
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Carthag Tuek posted:e: do people only live on the east coast in scotland? i always thought it was like norway with west-facing fjords & such. people only live in Edinburgh and glasgow which are right next to each other
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Carthag Tuek posted:i like how geology* prevented some soccer fields in northwest england & scotland. it almost looks like the fields blew in from the east lol yeah most of that empty space in the northwest is the lake district which is both a national park and well mostly hills and lakes 
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Carthag Tuek posted:i like how geology* prevented some soccer fields in northwest england & scotland. it almost looks like the fields blew in from the east lol Also visible in the map: the Alps
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Platystemon posted:
If there are primates in Sulawesi and those other islands, why did they stop there instead of colonizing New Guinea and then Australia? They're already east of the Wallace Line at that point, is there some other barrier?
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Ponsonby Britt posted:If there are primates in Sulawesi and those other islands, why did they stop there instead of colonizing New Guinea and then Australia? They're already east of the Wallace Line at that point, is there some other barrier? Lydekker’s line. Wallace’s is the most famous, but Lydekker’s line is more meaningful for monkeys. The area was wet at the glacial maximum, but not too broad for monkeys to traverse. 
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May 23, 2021 08:19
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According to Wikipedia, today the most tea drinking (per capita) countries are Turkey, Ireland, UK, Iran, and Russia. Seems like the Middle East and Eastern Europe were less important markets when this was made.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:According to Wikipedia, today the most tea drinking (per capita) countries are Turkey, Ireland, UK, Iran, and Russia. Seems like the Middle East and Eastern Europe were less important markets when this was made. Ireland is fairly surprising but Turkey being 30% higher than everybody else isn't. Shocked Afghanistan isn't up there, all the afghans I know are just as tea obsessed as turks but just prefer green tea.
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A quick googling says Afghanistan imports 10lbs per capita. Doesn't nesecarily mean all of that gets drunk, but it's probably safe to say they make the top 5.
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Sax Solo posted:
Those are pretty maps, but they hide the difference between "almost unpopulated" and "sparsely populated". France's countryside is "sparsely populated" whereas in Spain, you can look for miles without even seeing a single farmhouse. There are *farms* everywhere, but people must commute insanely far to go to their farms. There was a similar map to the one you posted, that was posted a few months or a year or two ago, that used the same "Manhattan" style of plotting, but without the distracting light source and coloration, and in that one you can see the difference between Spain and France much more clearly. I couldn't find it in a quick Google though. Ah, no, here it is: https://tjukanovt.github.io/ghspop That one is less "fancy" but much better as an interpretable graph. Use the arrow keys to move the graph left/right/up/down. The North African coast is not particularly densely populated either, not sure why it shows up so prominently on the other chart. I've been all over northern Tunisia and there are people and farms everywhere, but it's not exactly high population. Saladman fucked around with this message at 10:24 on May 23, 2021 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:e: do people only live on the east coast in scotland? i always thought it was like norway with west-facing fjords & such. It's basically just population.jpg. Hardly anyone lives in the highlands, and the nature of the topography makes constructing football pitches difficult.
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What's the actual difference between green and blue? Is it a matter of, for example, my CA falconry license is also valid in WA, but not in TX, and my TX falconry license is not valid in any other state?
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I'm shocked there's laws regulating a sport basically no one plays. https://twitter.com/AsFarce/status/1395154050077716480
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Space Kablooey posted:What's the actual difference between green and blue? Is it a matter of, for example, my CA falconry license is also valid in WA, but not in TX, and my TX falconry license is not valid in any other state? I posted it because falconry is a meme, but it turns out that it’s at least nine years out of date because the federal government hasn’t been in the permit business since 2012. Connecticut and Delaware have since established falconry permit systems, legalizing it.  Falfonry remains illegal in Hawai‘i due to fears that escaped birds could establish feral populations.
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Zedhe Khoja posted:Ireland is fairly surprising but Turkey being 30% higher than everybody else isn't. Shocked Afghanistan isn't up there, all the afghans I know are just as tea obsessed as turks but just prefer green tea. india also isn't on there when tea is basically a religion over there. I think it may just be poor reporting.
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I was always under the impression that it was coffee that was the inscrutable Turkish vice seducing the kings subjects into the foul arms of Liberalism. But apparently they like tea? Is this something that changed since then, they drink tea and coffee both, or that the Turkish love of coffee was vastly overstated?
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Turkish coffee and Turkish tea are both delicious so I'd be hard-pressed to choose if I were Turkish. Luckily I'm American so they're both poo poo and I just drink coffee out of habit
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Zedhe Khoja posted:I'm shocked there's laws regulating a sport basically no one plays. How do you even "play"
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Vasukhani posted:How do you even "play" You play bridge, and your falcon is your partner.
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"engage in" I guess. I dunno you watch a bird murder rabbits or something.galagazombie posted:I was always under the impression that it was coffee that was the inscrutable Turkish vice seducing the kings subjects into the foul arms of Liberalism. But apparently they like tea? Is this something that changed since then, they drink tea and coffee both, or that the Turkish love of coffee was vastly overstated? Coffee is a well loved desert and social drink, but Turks drink tea at literally every meal and in-between. When I'm at a dig site the Turks take periodic breaks from breaking their backs in the blistering sun to cool down with a nice scorching hot tea. It's insufferable, really. BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:india also isn't on there when tea is basically a religion over there. I think it may just be poor reporting. Yeah, I looked it up and India is at a bit less than two pounds per person per year but steadily rising. They'd make the list and urban Indian tea culture is pretty identical to the UK's.
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Can't believe the Poles didn't win with their on stage butter churning that one year.
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Does competing in Eurovision violate Switzerland’s vow of neutrality?
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It's funny that Italy just now is on the same level as one Johnny Logan.
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Blut posted:
This one took me a minute because I'm not used to blue denoting land.
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Blut posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsKn5KX6XnU&ab_channel=LepaBrena
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Saladman posted:The North African coast is not particularly densely populated either, not sure why it shows up so prominently on the other chart. I've been all over northern Tunisia and there are people and farms everywhere, but it's not exactly high population.
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Blut posted:
Luxembourg has won Eurovision 5 times?? Good lord.
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Saladman posted:Luxembourg has won Eurovision 5 times?? Good lord.
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Luxembourg used to have the reputation of a musical hotspot due to their national radio station, which was a kernel of today’s RTL conglomerate. Radio Luxembourg was what my grandparents would listen to when they wanted to hear the lates American hits. And Luxembourg would just hire whoever was hot in France at the time to win under their flag.
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Saladman posted:Luxembourg has won Eurovision 5 times?? Good lord. 5 wins for Luxembourg, 5 wins for the Netherlands and 5 wins for Ireland. The secret to Eurovision success appears to be enabling corporate tax evasion.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Luxembourg used to have the reputation of a musical hotspot due to their national radio station, which was a kernel of today’s RTL conglomerate. Radio Luxembourg was what my grandparents would listen to when they wanted to hear the lates American hits. Yeah exactly Luxembourg used to be the centre of europe's music industry because they could broadcast stuff into surrounding countries while circumventing those country's laws. Also tax avoidance.
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That's some big Civ energy. *spams great artists at the border*
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